'Hashtags' is a piece following my interests in the twitter scape as a generative element in sound works. Hashtags is the introduction piece of an album I am currently working on. In this piece, the raw commonly used twitter tags such as the @, #, RT and http:// are streamed directly into a software and sonified into this sound piece. Each unique tag is represented by a different sound.
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Kian-Peng Ong (aka Bin) is a new media artist from Singapore who works across a range of media that includes software, electronics and sound. He has been using new media as a means to question and transcode human perception and understanding of the environment. Bin’s works are very often a result of his personal experiences and encounters with the world.
He received his BA (interactive arts) from Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore). Currently, he is a graduate student in the UCLA Design | Media Arts program (Los Angeles, USA). His interest in sound stems from its abstract yet powerful affective qualities. Of equal interest to him, and a focus of one of his ongoing research projects, is the human relationship with nature, specifically how humans adapt or perceive environmental changes. Technology often plays a central role in his work in which the technology creates an experience, harmonizing with the theme and conceptual framework but not centralizing the work on technology itself.
Bin has shown his works regionally and internationally in Substation Singapore, Japan Media Arts Festival and upcoming ones such as Siggraph Art Gallery and the FILE Festival in Brazil.
http://ctrlsave.com
Nominated by The Substation
www.substation.org
This work is part of ICA SOUNDWORKS - www.ica.org.uk/soundworks